January 1st may be the official start of a new year, but for me, it’s always been fall that has signaled new beginnings. And this fall has been a season of MANY ...
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What I Learned This Summer . . . About Faith, Family, Floods, & First Birthdays (plus a few more things).
I’m toying with the idea of moving to a year-round school schedule for our homeschool. The biggest reason is that summer is actually the worst time of year for our family to ...
What I Learned This Spring About Bookshelves, Silliness, Parenting Opportunities, and Doing Hard Things
Spring weather in Texas is notoriously volatile: it’s not unusual to have a morning of thunderstorms, hail, and even tornado warnings followed by an afternoon of sunny, cloudless skies. My moods this ...
What I Learned This Winter About New Ventures, Early Bedtimes, Expectations, and Returning to Treasured Practices
At the start of the year, when I returned to a more consistent blogging schedule and began making plans for what my content would look like in the coming months, I automatically ...
What I Learned in 2024
What did I learn in 2024? Everything, and also nothing. How can I possibly consolidate the lessons of such a momentous year into a few hundred words? In this year of significant ...
What I Learned This Spring About Birthdays, Pregnancy, Expectations, and Small Conveniences
It seems that 2024 is the year of the Tenth Anniversary. Perhaps it’s just the content circles I swim in, but MANY of the podcasters and bloggers I follow are commemorating ten ...
What I Learned This Winter About Blessings, Loss, and My Own Best Practices
I have been reflecting on what I’ve been learning in posts like this one for ten years—almost since the inception of this blog. Often the lessons come easily to me, leaping out ...
What I Learned in 2023
It’s a weighty thing, reflecting on an entire year’s worth of learning. As one who claims learning and reflection as two of my highest values, I carry this task with seriousness and ...
Eleven Things I Learned This Fall
Fall is our family’s busiest season. Even without the sports involvement that occupies many families’ hours during the autumn months, we always pack a lot into September, October, and November, and this ...
An Assortment of Things I Learned in the Summer of ’23
Here’s something to ponder: where do you draw the line for the “end of summer”? Is it when school is back in session? Or when pumpkin spice shows up on the Starbucks ...